Seems interesting: plasTeX is a LaTeX document processing framework written entirely in Python. It currently comes bundled with an XHTML renderer (including multiple themes), as well as a way to simply dump the document to a generic form of XML. Other renderers can be added as well and are planned for future releases.

I was writing a MOD for phpBB, and at some moment I found I can’t go further without unit testing. I found it’s quite a hard task because phpBB is written without testing in mind. However, unit testing for phpBB is possible.

At some moment, I found that I’m afraid of writing new code. The reason was simple. I wrote in PHP and, obviously, without unit testing. I got the programmer’s block as punishment. To overcome the block, I had to create tests first.

As usual, the first thing I made, was searching Usenet. And I’m astomished by the result. The search for “unit testing” in the group “comp.lang.php” generates on four (4!) pages! PHP developers suck!

I download my mail using fetchmail. During the process, “tail -f” shows the subjects of the incoming letters. Unfortunately, most of them are unreadable, something like “=?windows-1251?B?0e/g7CDt4CBwaHBCQg==?=“. Finally, I tired of it and decided to make life better.

I thought “use strict” is enough and didn’t try to run an application with the “-w” flag. (Don’t blame me, it was under Windows.) As result, I played ping-pong with an user trying to identify an error instead of preventing the error.